| BBC... 22:44 - Dec 25 with 5758 views | Swanzay |
Why are the BBC calling people migrants and not refugees...? |  | | |  |
| BBC... on 21:31 - Dec 26 with 1385 views | Lohengrin |
| BBC... on 21:21 - Dec 26 by londonlisa2001 |
The King James is a beautiful piece of work.
I did, however, when I saw the story of the migrants yesterday, remark that many of those most vociferous in their opposition to these people arriving would also be the ones most vociferous in their celebration of the birth of a man who spent a lifetime explaining why the correct response would be one of welcome... |
“Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!”
Psalms again, 122:7 |  |
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| BBC... on 21:36 - Dec 26 with 1370 views | exiledclaseboy |
| BBC... on 21:31 - Dec 26 by Lohengrin |
“Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!”
Psalms again, 122:7 |
I bet you added the exclamation mark. |  |
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| BBC... on 21:44 - Dec 26 with 1352 views | londonlisa2001 |
| BBC... on 21:31 - Dec 26 by Lohengrin |
“Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!”
Psalms again, 122:7 |
As has been pointed out, that’s not a text which incorporates the teaching of the man being celebrated yesterday.
Since you like the King James, perhaps you should read Matthew 25 :
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. |  | | |
| BBC... on 21:47 - Dec 26 with 1348 views | Lohengrin |
| BBC... on 21:36 - Dec 26 by exiledclaseboy |
I bet you added the exclamation mark. |
I did. I hadn’t even realised until I read your post.
An inveterate dramatist. I’m sure old Billy Tyndale will be looking on from the great beyond and nodding approvingly.  | |
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| BBC... on 21:59 - Dec 26 with 1332 views | Lohengrin |
| BBC... on 21:44 - Dec 26 by londonlisa2001 |
As has been pointed out, that’s not a text which incorporates the teaching of the man being celebrated yesterday.
Since you like the King James, perhaps you should read Matthew 25 :
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. |
Matthew had never encountered Islam. | |
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| BBC... on 22:18 - Dec 26 with 1316 views | Highjack |
| BBC... on 21:25 - Dec 26 by dickythorpe |
The 70's porn star King ding a king used to pass out every time he had more than a semi |
Insert England football joke here |  |
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| BBC... on 22:31 - Dec 26 with 1305 views | Jack_Meoff |
Answer to the OP, probably the same reason the term 'benefits' replaced social security. Deliberately framed to illicit a response, often subconscious. |  |
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| BBC... on 09:39 - Dec 27 with 1224 views | AnotherJohn |
| BBC... on 22:31 - Dec 26 by Jack_Meoff |
Answer to the OP, probably the same reason the term 'benefits' replaced social security. Deliberately framed to illicit a response, often subconscious. |
The term refugee has a legal meaning derived from Article 1 of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention:
[Being a person]
1(2) As a result of events […] and owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it.
(I cut the bit that was amended by the 1967 Protocol).
Article 33 is the origin of the 'first safe country' rule, which so many have been trying to blur.
As regards the religious aspect, I can't help wondering whether Christians might learn something from Buddhists, who have more first-hand experience of what 'come' and 'inherit' may involve.
“Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world…”
See:
http://www.ebooksdownloads.xyz/search/islam-and-violent-separatism | | | |
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